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Michael Shellenberger

@shellenberger

Jul 30

Victory! President @realDonaldTrump Treasury Dept. has imposed sanctions on the Brazilian tyrant, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is preventing former President @jairbolsonaro from competing with President @LulaOficial in presidential elections next year. This is a major victory for free speech and democracy. Bravo!

For decades, the media have demanded financial sanctions against tyrants. But now that Trump is imposing sanctions against Left-wing tyranny, the media is crying about sovereignty. The hypocrisy is so thick you can cut it with a knife. Witness the propaganda:

“Alexandre de Moraes has taken it upon himself to be judge and jury in an unlawful witch hunt against U.S. and Brazilian citizens and companies. De Moraes is responsible for an oppressive campaign of censorship, arbitrary detentions that violate human rights, and politicized prosecutions—including against former President Jair Bolsonaro. Today’s action makes clear that Treasury will continue to hold accountable those who threaten U.S. interests and the freedoms of our citizens.” @SecScottBessent

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Michael Shellenberger

@shellenberger

Jul 28

Trump’s tariff push failed, the media said. But the new US-EU trade deal shows it worked spectacularly well. The US will get 10x more in revenue from tariffs on EU imports, and $600B more in direct investment from EU. Even Trump haters say it’s a big win for the US.

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1909381097215213650

It was obvious back in April that the aggressive tariffs were a negotiating strategy. A bunch of supposedly smart people acted really dumb about this because they are market ideologues and/or TDS sufferers.

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1909381097215213650

As we noted back in April, the tariffs are the messy birth of a new world order.

Nice to see the @nytimes finally acknowledge this. The “framework seemed likely to permanently reshape the trading relationship between two of the world’s largest and most interconnected economies.”

Nothing succeeds like success.

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Michael Shellenberger

@shellenberger

Jul 24

It's better to let mentally ill people buy and use meth and fentanyl on sidewalks, believes Gavin Newsom, than arrest their drug dealers, and them, and mandate rehab.

But enabling Mexican-Chinese drug mafias to murder mentally ill Americans with fentanyl, as they do everyday and did again a few hours ago in San Francisco, as the video below by @war24182236 shows, is barbaric and pathological.

I thus applaud Trump's announcement that he will crack down on open air drug use and the government policies that encourage addiction.

Harm reduction led to drug deaths rising from 20,000 in 2000 to over 100,000 in 2023. The federal government should have acted decades ago to stop the barbarism.

Seventy percent of Californians last November voted to crack down on fentanyl. Newsom opposed that measure (Prop 36) and is starving its implementation of resources, for the simple reason that he needs Soros money for his presidential run.

Californians should support the federal government in, finally, doing the right thing on addiction and the drug death crisis.

From the US to Europe to Asia, there is one and only one humane way to deal with "homelessness" and it's this, below. It's wonderful to see it in this new Executive Order by @realDonaldTrump :

"The Order redirects funding to ensure that individuals camping on streets and causing public disorder and that are suffering from serious mental illness or addiction are moved into treatment centers, assisted outpatient treatment, or other facilities."

whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/20…

https://x.com/war24182236/status/1948421896766378120

Congratulations to everyone who has worked hard to expose the drug death and addiction crisis and demand rational action. Be sure to follow @Gina_McDee @JacquiBerlinn @Twolfrecovery @EricaJSandberg @bettersoma @war24182236 to demand action at all levels of government.

https://x.com/war24182236/status/1948421896766378120

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Michael Shellenberger

@shellenberger

Jul 22

At first they said it was only polite to refer to someone by their preferred pronounds. Then, they demanded social media censorship. Now, governments are fining, and may soon jail, people who deny the lie that men can become women. This is as terrifying as anything in "1984."

European and Latin American leaders are at this moment working together to create a global Censorship Industrial Complex that will require every person online to deny biological reality and embrace pseudoscience.

Brazil's highest court could soon decide whether to imprison a women's rights activist for up to 25 years for a single sentence spoken in an Instagram video and the sharing of four X posts written by others, even though neither her words nor those of others violated any existing Brazilian law.

Under Article 213 of Brazil’s Penal Code, the base sentence for rape is 6 to 10 years for standard cases and 8 to 12 years if the rape involves violence or serious threat and causes serious bodily harm. As such, Cêpa could receive a prison term twice as long as what men receive for rape.

The Supreme Court decided to reopen a case against Isabela Cêpa, which may determine whether the court can criminalize speech by judicial decree, bypassing the democratic process entirely. In fact, a federal judge had already dismissed the case, agreeing with prosecutors that Cêpa’s statements did not meet the legal threshold for hate speech and that no law had been violated.

"The Supreme Court took the case and now they have only two options," Cêpa told me in our interview. "One of them is to admit that they're applying a law that does not exist and [that] they're punishing people for crimes that do not exist. And the other option would be to send me to jail. I'm pretty sure what their decision will be."

The 32-year-old feminist activist's journey to exile began at an airport in Brazil in July 2024. Eight federal police officers surrounded her, she says, poring over her case file with puzzled expressions.

"Do you know about any charges or anything against you?" she recalls them asking.

"This makes no sense," she says one police officer commented after reading the charges. According to her account, they held the plane at the gate while deciding her fate. "This is a case of political persecution. You're not safe," she says an officer told her before escorting her onto a flight to Madrid.

Brazilian authorities had flagged her name at every airport in the country, she says. Since that day, she says she has lived in forced exile, moving between locations, unable to return home....

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Michael Shellenberger

@shellenberger

Jul 11

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1942408685592207433

Whether @AGPamBondi , @FBIDirectorKash , and/or @FBIDDBongino stay or go, one thing is clear: the Trump admin. must release the Epstein Files. It's our God-given right to know. The issue has transcended partisanship, and neither the Right nor Left are moving on.

https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1942408685592207433

"This is the worst coverup of my lifetime... If you can get away with this, you really can get away with anything.

"If the government can tell people to not believe what they just said a few months ago and have everyone be fine with that.

"That's a level of gaslighting that I refuse to be a part of.

"Never forget, they just promised us names in the release of the Epstein files." @coffeebreak_YT

This is essential viewing:

"The Worst Coverup Of My Lifetime."

"The Story Keeps Changing"

This is also essential watching. Just see for yourself the statements people have been making, and how their stories changed dramatically.

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Michael Shellenberger

@shellenberger

Jul 10

Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz just now: " I know for a fact [Epstein] documents are being suppressed and they're being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals, I know why they're being suppressed. I know who's suppressing them, but I'm bound by confidentiality from a judge and cases, and I can't disclose what I know. But, hand to God, I know the names of people whose files are being suppressed in order to protect them, and that's wrong."

@SeanSpicer : “Just out of curiosity, without names, are these politicians, business leaders…”

Dershowtiz: “Both. Everything.”